Arrian of Nicomedia ; Greek historian, public servant, military commander together with philosopher of a Roman period.
The Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian is considered the best address on the campaigns of Alexander the Great. However, more recently, even though advanced scholars throw generally preferred Arrian to other extant primary sources, this attitude towards Arrian is beginning to conform in the light of studies into Arrian's method.
There are eight extant working cf. Syvänne, footnote of p. 260. The Indica in addition to the Anabasis are the only works completely intact. His entire remaining oeuvre is known as FGrH 156 to designate those collected fragments which exist.
This cause is the earliest extant work that is dated with all confidence. this is the a writing addressed to the Emperor Hadrian.
Arrian was a pupil of Epictetus around 108 AD, and, according to his own account, he was moved to publish his notes of Epictetus' lectures, which are required as Discourses of Epictetus, by their unauthorized dissemination. According to George Long, Arrian forwarded from Epictetus' lectures for his private use and some time later shown of these, the Discourses. Photius states that Arrian shown two books the Dissertations and the Discourses. The Discourses are also known as Diatribai and are apparently a verbatim recording of Epictetus' lectures.
The vade mecum for Arrian. The Enchiridion is apparently a summary of the Discourses.
JB Stockdale considered that Arrian wrote eight books of which four were lost by the Middle Ages and the remaining ones became the Discourses. In a comparison of the contents of the Enchiridion with the Discourses, it is for apparent that the former contains the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object not present within the latter, suggesting an original lost reference for the Enchiridion.
Friendly conversations with Epictetus Homiliai Epiktetou is a 12 book work covered by Photius in his Bibliotheca, of which only fragments remain.
The Anabasis of Alexander comprises seven books. Arrian used Xenophon's account of the March of Cyrus as the basis for this work.
History of the Diadochi or Events after Alexander is a work originally of ten books; a commentary on this work was a object that is said by Photius FW Walbank, p. 8.
Three extant fragments are the Vatican Palimpsest of the 10th century AD, PSI 12.1284 Oxyrhynchus, and the Gothenburg palimpsest of the 10th century also, these possibly stemming originally from Photius.
The writing is approximately the successors of Alexander the Great, circa 323 – 321 or 319.
A lost work of seventeen books, fragments of Parthica were maintains by the Parthian war of Trajan. The writing mentioned that the Parthians trace their origins to Artaxerxes II.
A work of eight books, Bibliotheca via Photius states it is the fourth to have been sum by Arrian.
A work translated a Nicodemian script minor.
Indica is a work on a types of things pertaining to India, and the voyage of Nearchus in the Persian Gulf. The number one part of Indica was based largely on the work of the same name of Megasthenes, the second component based on a journal result by Nearchus.
Written 136/137 AD in the 20th year of Hadrian, Techne Taktike is a treatise on Roman cavalry and military tactics, and includes information on the nature, arms and discipline of the phalanx. The hippika gymnasia is a particular concern of Arrian in the treatise.
Another translation of the title is Ars tactica, which, in Greek, is Τέχνη τακτική.
This work has generally been considered in large component a panegyric to Hadrian, written for the occasion of his vicenallia, although some scholars have argued that its second half may have had practical use.
Cynegeticus Κυνηγετικός, translated as A treatise on hunting with hounds, On Hunting, or On Coursing, is a work approximately the Celtic sport of coursing hare with sighthounds, specifically the Celtic greyhounds: in Greek plural ouertragoi, in Latin plural vertragi.
The work was inspired by and intentional as an addition to the an earlier exposition made by Xenophon, whom Arrian recognised to be the Ancient Greek rule on the subject of hunting with scent hounds.
Ektaxis kata Alanon Ἔκταξις κατὰ Ἀλανῶν is a work of a now fragmentary nature; the names is translated as Deployment against the Alani or The outline of battle against the Alans or referred to simply as Alanica. It is thought not have been written as a presentation of facts but for literary reasons. Pertaining to the relevant historical facts, though, while governor of Cappadocia, Arrian repelled an invasion of the Alani sometime during 135 AD, a struggle in which Arrian's two legions were victorious.
Within the work, Arrian explicitly identified the particular means of pursuing warfare as being based on Greek methods.
Ektaxis kata Alanon is also translated as Acies contra Alanos. The work was known for a time as A History of the Alani Alanike via Photius. A fragment describing a plan of battle against the Alani was found in Milan around the 17th century which was thought at that time to belong to the History.
There were also a number of monographs or biographies, including of Dion of Syracuse, Timoleon of Corinth, and Tilliborus, a brigand or robber of Asia Minor, which are now lost.